For over ten years Ben Goldacre had a 'Bad Science' column in The Guardian where he explored dubious claims, extraordinary advertisments and questionable medical statistics and this is a compilation of the best of them. They provide a measured and rational response to the blizzard of half-facts and assertions that seem to be thrown around at random these days and make superb bedtime reading as long as exposing cant and hypocrisy doesn't raise your indignation.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 103 Winter 2022 ) |
